Westcorkrailway

There is lots of stuff at moyasta. Off the top of my head there is

A3r

A15

124

152

190

Mk 3 dvt 

mk 3 (maybe 2)

C227 (disguised as C202) 

bullied corrugated open wagon 

30 ton break van 

X3 Ballast wagons 

plough van 

Inchicore fire engines.

a few bord NA mona types 

33 minutes ago, Davenport said:

Hello lads,

 

I'm looking for advice on respraying a bachmann 150 DUM  into irish rail livery.

Has anyone on here done this conversion?

 

Was thinking of the livery in the photo

Anyone know what the correct colours are please ? and where to get sticker transfers?

Any help is appreciated, thanks 

I think talk to Chris dier on Facebook. I don’t know if anyone on this parish off the top of my head who has done it but good luck

6 minutes ago, irishrailways52 said:

just thinking how are they going to run her when she is ready. will they doubblehead her with a 141. i know im really getting my hopes up here but might she run with the mark 3 control car curently at Moyasta

I hear there allowed to run bonnet first…..won’t that be something

I always though 1 Black and Tan 071 (lol) and one arrow 2600 would do nicely along with an orange 201 

39 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

.When the 2600s were new, Connolly drivers christened them as the “Fanta Cans”; one suggested to me later when the navy blue, white and lime green livery appeared, that they were niw turning them into Lilt cans!

Ironically lilt and the last commuter liveried 29k both went extinct around the same time

I think Fanta cans compared to “cattle trucks” which is what Wikipedia said there nickname was, is slightly more humerus and I’ve actually heard people call it Fanta cans in the wild even 15 or so years after they last wore orange. Maybe one day there will be another Fanta can 

12 hours ago, meathdane said:

A Class 66 in Black'n'tan?

An A class in An Garda livery? (A la class 37 in police livery)

A 22000 in Arrow livery?

This will be interesting to watch

 

I’ll always recomend this thread which has not quite those things, but pretty close

(I think if you click on the image it brings to northern blue 109s flickr with some fun and some serious “what ifs” in Ireland and beyond) 

2 hours ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

Sorry, This is just information I have that I either was informed of or observed for myself.

 

During the autumn or winter months there tends to be a period of non stop failures, and that can happen for up to 2 weeks.

 

I will send an updated version tomorrow.

What I meant by bad record was just LOOK at how many failures there was in 2022. I was not commenting on your book keeping in fact, this is a good easy way to keep track (infact it should be plugged into Excel to make pie charts and the like) 

what I’m saying is the DD’s look great, have. Lovely GM at the head, but with a record like that it’s getting easy to justify a replacement 

11 minutes ago, fergalm1 said:

Bit more work on Muine Bheag/Bagenalstown station with some guest appearances by some wagons

Where did the footbridge come from?

I’m no expert but that’s not a great record. even with my Mark 4 bias the DDs deffinetly have a better ride and I’ll miss them when there gone. But you can’t overlook a reliability record like that….and that was in 2022, there not getting any younger! 

11 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Glass units in, Kathleen did her best to battle me but I eventually got finished, will do some painting touch up tomorrow.

 

Tasty work! 

15 minutes ago, skinner75 said:

Except it is a copy - Paddy still has the full order he placed with the manufacturer.

Press charges against the factory owner, not the people buying locos from Ebay - sure how are they to know anyway?

Same as going after the drug dealers instead of the users/addicts

 

I think these locos were not copies but pulled out of the reject bin. So these models could be decective hence he wants them out of circulation 

same when a bad batch of currency gets out of the mint 

This one always seemed like an open goal for a 3D print project or a kit. 

13 minutes ago, Branchline121 said:

Looking at the page now, it seems someone has just removed it today, probably influenced by this thread.

good to hear....ive heard fanta cans and buiscuit tins purley in a saterical fashion but never cattle cars....

a thread uncovering the falsities in irish railway wikipedia would be good!

Oh yeah the point of my previous post was a “wouldn’t it be nice if” fever dream….one could say an April fools. 
 

18 hours ago, Darrman said:

Cattle Cars, as whoever wrote the Wikipedia 2600 page (I suspect that person is not a fan of the 2600) calls them?

Has anyone ever called them that? 
 

somone would ought to remove that from the wiki. I’m no good at Wikipedia as I once tried to edit the cork bandon and south coast Wikipedia to remove “Clonmacsherry” as a village among a few other things and got in trouble with the citation police. 

2 hours ago, Galteemore said:

It’s an OO works CBSCR loco. Now out of production. https://www.ooworks.co.uk/reviews

Lovely model, shame about how they run themselves into the ground…

4 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

On the main lines nowadays the only steam locomotives which are feasible to opetare are those which can do all of the following:

1.  Haul a train with sufficient seats to pay the colossal cost of the operation, between IE charges, crews and coal. That instantly rules out several RPSI mainline locois, never mind shunters.

2. Haul a train at a sufficient line speed to fit into a timetable slot. This also rules out many RPSI locos which are bigger and faster than shunters.

3. Have sufficient coal and water capacity to travel longer distances than any shunter 9or 90) were built for.

Gone are the days when many rural lines here had only one or two trains - or none - on a Sunday, and perhaps only 3 or 4 each way on a weekday. The railways are (happily) getting busier by the day, and with the population predicted toi go on rising for the next 20-30 years at least, this one ain't gonna get easier, Consequently, the emphasis will increasingly be on reliable larger locos which can keep time.

Downpatrick os the place for 5'3" gauge steam long term. There really is no other likelihood of that anywhere. Plus, technically it's "main line"; the line from Downpatrick out as far as where the Inch Abbey line diverges to the right, plus North Junction to the southern limit of the line, is part of the former BCDR main line from Belfast to Newcastle! No. 90 will return to traffic as soon as finance and manpower allows there, and there are always the two Sugar Co. locos. The RPSI's two no. 3s have both worked there in the past - in fact the Guinness loco was the first steam loco to operate there in preserved days.

Bottom line: 3BG, LPHC3, CSET3, 1 & 90 will not be able to operate tours on the NIR / IE systems again.

I’m sure a millionaire would be able to get 90 to run down from limerick-Waterford. But that’s about it.

I’d probobly spend my millions on newbuilds or restoring 6111 or something 

A crude representation of Locomotive 461 features on “Farming simulator 2019” 

15 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

I'm afraid I would scrap the one above unless someone (yes, that famous "someone" again!) could be found to give it a lick of paint and stick it on a plinth somewhere.............(West Cork?)

Oh…..oh yes 

30 minutes ago, Railwayrover said:

Oh god this is actually really bad

Those photos were taken many years ago too ….

3 hours ago, Railwayrover said:

Thanks a lot, I watched a YouTube video and thought for some reason that the green a class train was C227! I hope we will be able to see it and it won’t be wrapped in covers, it seems as though it’s in a fairly bad state on the outside with the inside completely stripped, it avoided scrapping before but I wonder what the future holds for the loco.

Bogies being swaped for ITG spares and it’s due to be part of a meuseum 

Your able to see it. Just get the right permission first 

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/9317-c202/

19 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Must have been Almost 12 months ago. At this stage 

 

I could find the dates 

our train was delayed at least half an hour too maybe 45 minutes 

2 minutes ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

When was the 29k sub for the Enterprise?

Must have been Almost 12 months ago. At this stage 

I could find the dates 

1 hour ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

I am planning a trip to Cork over the summer,  is it possible to get from Belfast - Connolly - Heuston - Cork?

I know the Enterprise is Belfast - Connolly and LUAS to Heuston but  how much is first class for those two trips (Belfast - Connolly & Heuston - Cork)?

It’s not a journey one would want to make in one day. I recomend staying in Cork (somhow) overnight. Maybe do the East Cork lines too.

belfast-Connolly has first class (unless it breaks down as my Cork-Belfast leg did, great fun sitting the 2nd half of a 6 hour journey in a 29k!), but, thanks to the ongoing refurbishment of the mark 4s. The Heuston-Cork leg of your journey will either be in the old City Gold, Or the New 1st class and it’s impossible to tell which trains have the new and improved first class, versus the old and a bit tired city gold.

just yesterday I was in Kent following the st Patrick’s day special trains on the east Cork lines and counted of the 3 mark 4 sets I saw, 2 of them still had city gold 

Small job done yesterday when the sun was out. 
 

The sides and back came white, not to happy with this arangment, I found a decent match rattle can and changed it around 

the next job will be finding a way of strengthening it and weighing it down before I can attach the lamp iron bracket